Lukas Meißel

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• Curriculum Vitae

  • 2007-2011 Bachelor's degree in history (BA), University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 2011-2015 Master's degree in contemporary history (MA), University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 2016-2024 PhD at the University of Haifa (Israel)
  • 2017 David Herzog Fonds/Center of Jewish Studies, University of Graz (Austria)
  • 2017 Yad Vashem Scholarship, The Suessel & Sigmund Siegelman z”l Fund (Israel)
  • 2018 EHRI Fellowship, Bundesarchiv Berlin (Germany)
  • 2019 USC Shoah Foundation, Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s Greenberg Research Fellow (USA)
  • 2019 Junior Fellowship, Center for Holocaust Studies/Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (Germany)
  • 2019 Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (USA)
  • 2019-2020 Lecturer, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 2020-2021 Junior Fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) (Austria)
  • 2021-2022 Doctoral fellow 2021/2022, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (France)
  • 2024 Visiting Scholar, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
  • 2024-2026 Postdoc Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) with two post-doctoral grants of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris (France)
  • seit 2025 Faculty member, lecturer, and research fellow, Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa (Israel)
  • since January 2026 Full Professor for “Didactics of History with a focus on pragmatic concepts” (non-tenure-track), Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna
• Awards

  • 2015 Herbert-Steiner-Anerkennungspreis, Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW), International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
  • 2021 Theodor-Körner-Prize für Wissenschaft, Institute for Historical Social Studies, Vienna
  • 2024 Herbert-Steiner-Prize 2024, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
  • 2024 The Robert Wistrich Prize 2024, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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• Research interests

  • Visual History
  • Visual History Didactics
  • Holocaust Studies and Education
  • Antisemitism Studies
  • Politics of Memory and Memory Culture
• Projects

  Curren Research Projects

  ·       Integrated History Didactics

  ·       Holocaust Education on the Concentration Subcamp System

  ·       Photographic Testimonies. An Integrated Visual History of Survival and Resistance

  ·       Teaching Conflict: International Didactic Approaches to Contested History

   

  Third-Party Funded Projects

  2025: Stationentheater widerSTADT by tdu_wien, theater performances for schools on the Austrian Civil War

  funding: the cultural department of the City of Vienna

  with Charlotte Rönchen as historical advisor

   

  2021-2022: Festschrift and ceremonial event for Hans Safrian's 70th birthday, University of Vienna

  funding: Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Institute for Historic Social Studies, AK Wien/Chamber of Labour Vienna, the cultural department of the City of Vienna;

  with Jutta Fuchshuber

   

  2019: Israeli-Austrian exchange program ‚Spurensuche – Back to the Roots’

  funding: National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Jewish Welcome Service, the cultural department of the City of Vienna, Future Fund of the Republic of Austria;

  with Linda Erker and Stefanie Maczijewski

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• Memberships

  Holocaust Culture Network (Pennsylvania State University and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

  Memory Studies Association (MSA)

   

  Completed Research Groups:

  EHRI Holocaust Photographs Expert Group (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure EHRI)

  Weiss-Livnat Young Fellow Researchers Program (University of Haifa)
• Editorship

  Aufregende Forschung. Zeitgeschichtliche Interventionen von Hans Safrian (Vienna: new academic press, 2022) (with Jutta Fuchshuber).

  [Unsettling Research. Contemporary Historical Interventions by Hans Safrian]

   

  Orientierungen, Irritationen. Studienfahrten an Erinnerungsorte der NS-Verbrechen (Vienna: LIT, 2021) (ed. by Verein GEDENKDIENST with Till Hilmar, Olivia Kaiser, Lena Krainz, Laurin Neidhart and Magdalena Rest).

  [Orientations, Irritations. Study Trips to Places of Remembrance for National Socialist Crimes]